Law Of Attraction

This accounts for the repetition of terms which you will observe throughout the course, and at the same time serves as an apology to those students who have already advanced far enough to grasp the meaning of much that the beginner will not understand at first reading.

The sub-conscious mind has one outstanding characteristic to which I will now direct your attention; namely, it records the suggestions which von send it through Auto-suggestion, and invokes the aid of infinite intelligence in translating these suggestions into their natural physical form, through natural means which are in no way out of the ordinary. It is important that you understand the foregoing sentence, for, if YOU fail to understand it, you are likely to fail, also, to understand the importance of the very foundation upon which this entire course is built - that foundation being the principle of infinite intelligence, which may be reached and appropriated at will through aid of the law of the Master Mind described in the Introductory Lesson.

Study carefully, thoughtfully and with meditation, the entire preceding paragraph. The sub-conscious mind has another outstanding characteristic - it accepts and acts upon all suggestions that reach it, whether they are constructive or destructive, and whether they come from the outside or from your own conscious mind.

You can see, therefore, how essential it is for you to observe the law of evidence and carefully follow the principles laid down in the beginning of this lesson, in the selection of that which you will pass on to your subconscious mind through Auto-suggestion. You can see why one must search diligently for facts, and why one cannot afford to lend a receptive ear to the slanderer and the scandalmonger - for to do so is the equivalent of feeding the sub-conscious mind with food that is poison and ruinous to creative thought.

The sub-conscious mind may be likened to the sensitive plate of a camera on which the picture of any object placed before the camera will be recorded. The plate of the camera does not choose the sort of picture to be recorded on it, it records anything which reaches it through the lens.